![]() “We hope that the new administration will recognize that Russia is a long-term strategic challenge for the United States and a strategic threat to this part of Eastern Europe,” Marcin Terlikowski, head of the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, told NBC News. ![]() ![]() During the election campaign, the president-elect suggested he might not come to the aid of NATO allies if they were attacked. To minimize that reaction time, a U.S.-led battalion will also be stationed in Poland near the border with Russia's Baltic exclave, Kaliningrad, following Moscow’s announcement that it will station nuclear-capable missiles there.īut as an assertive Russia steps up its military presence in the Baltic region at Western Europe's eastern flank, countries including Poland fear what will happen during the Donald Trump era. Presently, it has only two light brigades in Europe: 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment. ![]() The additional combat equipment will give the Army the option for another heavy armored brigade. Army began to assemble additional so called Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) for permanent storage in Europe. ![]() Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and M1A2 Abrams tanks take part in joint military exercises near Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 18. Army in Europe, welcomed a batch of tracked and wheeled support vehicles to a depot in the Netherlands on Thursday.Īt the Dutch installation in Eygelshoven, a 500,000-square-feet storage space - including nine humidity-controlled warehouses - has been made available to house elements of the Army’s “strategically prepositioned critical war stock.” It includes Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and Paladin self-propelled howitzers. ![]()
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